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The most famous rock in Yosemite National Park's Valley, El Capitan, a granite monolith 3,593 feet high. Click on the image for more Yosemite, California, USA pictures.
Yosemite
National Park is one of the best known wilderness areas in the world,
a huge mass of rock and wood in the Sierra Nevada Mountains visited
by over 3 million tourists a year.
Yosemite has been a hiking destination since 1890, with 800 miles
of trails going up to 13,000 ft altitude. Mountain biking is easy
in the seven mile long, one mile wide valley, but hard work elsewhere.
The Valley offers a free shuttle bus service, various shops, art centres,
galleries, bike and raft rentals and ice rink in winter.
Climbing is popular in Yosemite and El Capitan is the #1 target for
those who love high times, though Tuolumne Meadows also has a good
selection of mad rocks.
Downhill and cross-country skiing can be found at Badger Pass during
winter.
But beware! Yosemite Valley is the easiest, most impressive
and warmest place to stay in the park, but lodging and the three camp
sites are limited and in much demand, so book ahead. Using Yosemite's
other camp sites will involve long and winding uphill/downhill
roads to reach the valley and much colder nights at much higher altitude.
However! The Valley is also - much of the time - a mass of vehicles,
no entry signs, one-way streets and roadworks, so if you don't mind
chilly nights and prefer solitude you might choose to camp in Yosemite's
higher, more isolated places such as Tuolumne Meadows.
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